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A house in the village of Przemocze, Poland
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Genealogy Related Sites
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet – Cyndi features thousands of links to genealogical
web sites. A great starting point for the beginner or a source of new information for the experienced researcher.
Heritage Quest – The world’s largest commercial archives for U.S. family research with a massive collection
of census data on their Heritage Quest CD-ROMs.
Heritage Creations – A genealogy store featuring over 4,000 products, plus Heritage Quest Magazine,
a bi-monthly genealogy magazine filled with helpful how to articles for all levels of family researchers.
Out of print books, hard to find published genealogies and detailed, high quality historic map reproductions and
much more. Visit the online store for Martlet Books and Jonathan Sheppard here.
Write to offices in Europe – in their language. This helpful site
can help you get that hard to locate baptismal certificate or death record.
Barnette’s Family Tree Bookstore – you can order books and have them
sent to you from my friend Mic’s huge inventory.
Family Tree Magazine – A high quality magazine that featured
an article about European Focus Private Tours in their June, 2000 issue. Back copies can be ordered from the
magazine’s publishers.
German Life Magazine – user of European Focus photography.
Restoration of heirloom photographs by Just Black and White
Family History Magazine – formerly Evertons Genealogical Helper
National Archives and Records Administration
National Genealogical Society (NGS)
Swedish Genealogy
Czech Republic web sites, for help in researching
Bohemia and Moravia and more.
The Poland site is very helpful, especially
in helping you translate the old German name of a town to the current-day Polish name.
Italian Genealogy Home page
Palatines to America Home page
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild – This web site is
really fascinating. It’s not only packed with information about ship’s passenger lists and the like, but it also
features a wonderful link to online dictionaries in many
European languages that is very easy to use.
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe (SGGEE)– This web page is
devoted to the study of those people with German ancestry (generally of the Lutheran, Baptist, or Catholic faiths) who lived in present-day
Poland (including those lands known previously as West and East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania), and also those people who lived in
the western part of present-day Ukraine, in the old pre-World War II province of Volhynia.
Finding Your German Ancestors –
an interesting and helpful article that everyone doing German research can benefit from.
Resources for German Genealogy on the Internet from German Roots
The Polish Genealogy Home page
Professional Researchers
Research in Italy –
This is the web site for Giulio C. Salemme, acclaimed researcher with a long track record of success. We’ve
personally worked with him on several projects. Giulio lives in La Spezia, in northern Italy, but he works
throughout the mainland. Giulio speaks English.
Research in Poland – This is
the web site for Adela Chudziak-Bak, a Polish translator and genealogist living in Phoenix, AZ.
Research in Sicily, as well as in Salt Lake City –
Kathy Kirkpatrick makes regular research trips to Sicily on behalf of her clients.
The ProGenealogists research group researching at the
Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Simple record searches, ancestry research, immigration research.
Travel Agent
Karen Schroedermeier, owner of All About Travel, an independently owned business that deals with clients nationwide. Karen is a true
professional and we use her for all of our personal and business travel as well as much of the travel we set up for private
tours. She specializes in complex itineraries and is experienced in setting up European rental car reservations.
Professional Services
Heritage Consulting and Services, located in Salt
Lake City. Coming to the Family History Library to conduct research? Want some on-site help? This is their
specialty. Plus, they have a store conveniently located across the street from the library in the Crossroads Mall.
Chapters from BioFiles Create a Personal Biography. Your
words, your voice, your photographs, your home movies, combined into permanent, user-friendly CD-ROM format. Leave a
legacy your descendants will treasure!
German Research – specifically in Baden-Württemberg, e-mail Brigitte Burkett, C.G.R.S.
Professional translations of Polish and other Slavic languages. Dorota Rzymska, Ph.D.,
P.O. Box 34-1197, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Professional translations of German to English and vice versa, Petra Haynes,
German Language Communications at 6556 Odell Street, St. Louis, MO 63139 (636) 451-5115 or fax (636) 451-5594.
They also have a web site.
On the Bookshelf
Detailed Maps – many road maps available for Germany, focusing on small sections of the country. Great
clarity – not indexed but before your map is sent, your ancestral town or towns will be located and
plotted on the map for you. Cost is just $3.00 per map including postage and the location of your town or
towns.
Contact me by my e mail address of EuroFocus@aol.com if you are interested
in any of these items.
Sites Worth Exploring
Find Towns Anywhere in the World
Interactive Currency Table – convert
dollars to Deutschmarks or a wide variety of other World currencies. Very easy to use.
German Post – a good site in case you are
looking for people in Germany with your surname.
Colleagues
The Night Watchman of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
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